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Control of HPV-associated tumors by innovative therapeutic HPV DNA vaccine in the absence of CD4+ T cells

Overview of attention for article published in Cell & Bioscience, March 2014
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Title
Control of HPV-associated tumors by innovative therapeutic HPV DNA vaccine in the absence of CD4+ T cells
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Cell & Bioscience, March 2014
DOI 10.1186/2045-3701-4-11
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Shiwen Peng, Liwen Song, Jayne Knoff, Joshua W Wang, Yung-Nien Chang, Drew Hannaman, T-C Wu, Ronald D Alvarez, Richard BS Roden, Chien-Fu Hung

Abstract

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infections are particularly problematic for HIV + and solid organ transplant patients with compromised CD4+ T cell-dependent immunity as they produce more severe and progressive disease compared to healthy individuals. There are no specific treatments for chronic HPV infection, resulting in an urgent unmet need for a modality that is safe and effective for both immunocompromised and otherwise normal patients with recalcitrant disease. DNA vaccination is attractive because it avoids the risks of administration of live vectors to immunocompromised patients, and can induce potent HPV-specific cytotoxic T cell responses. We have developed a DNA vaccine (pNGVL4a-hCRTE6E7L2) encoding calreticulin (CRT) fused to E6, E7 and L2 proteins of HPV-16, the genotype associated with approximately 90% vaginal, vulvar, anal, penile and oropharyngeal HPV-associated cancers and the majority of cervical cancers. Administration of the DNA vaccine by intramuscular (IM) injection followed by electroporation induced significantly greater HPV-specific immune responses compared to IM injection alone or mixed with alum. Furthermore, pNGVL4a-hCRTE6E7L2 DNA vaccination via electroporation of mice carrying an intravaginal HPV-16 E6/E7-expressing syngeneic tumor demonstrated more potent therapeutic effects than IM vaccination alone. Of note, administration of the DNA vaccine by IM injection followed by electroporation elicited potent E6 and E7-specific CD8+ T cell responses and antitumor effects despite CD4+ T cell-depletion, although no antibody response was detected. While CD4+ T cell-depletion did reduce the E6 and E7-specific CD8+ T cell response, it remained sufficient to prevent subcutaneous tumor growth and to eliminate circulating tumor cells in a model of metastatic HPV-16+ cancer. Thus, the antibody response was CD4-dependent, whereas CD4+ T cell help enhanced the E6/E7-specific CD8+ T cell immunity, but was not required. Taken together, our data suggest that pNGVL4a-hCRTE6E7L2 DNA vaccination via electroporation warrants testing in otherwise healthy patients and those with compromised CD4+ T cell immunity to treat HPV-16-associated anogenital disease and cancer.

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Country Count As %
South Africa 1 2%
Unknown 55 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 23%
Researcher 8 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 13%
Student > Master 7 13%
Student > Bachelor 4 7%
Other 8 14%
Unknown 9 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 13 23%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 12 21%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 18%
Immunology and Microbiology 6 11%
Engineering 2 4%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 8 14%
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#6,367,074
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Outputs from Cell & Bioscience
#143
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Outputs of similar age
#60,255
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Outputs of similar age from Cell & Bioscience
#3
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